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I’ve been daydreaming about replacing my home theatre speakers, since our ageing amplifier died. The sleek, silver Sony box was impressive in its day but that was over 18 years ago. Now we’ve got all the wireless and internet connected things, I’m spoilt for choice. I’ve done some online research but I’m not a detailed,…

The latest scandal to hit Facebook is from users reporting that old private messages (circa 2007-2008) have now been made public on their timeline. Facebook is denying this, saying they aren’t private messages at all, just old wall posts. Despite Facebook engineers knowing what they are talking about with their own software (or do they?),…

Over the last few days, a few articles have come my way (including one I wrote myself) about smartphone addiction and the impact of our ‘always connected’ society. My favourite so far has been this fromm Joe Kraus at Google Ventures: http://joekraus.com/were-creating-a-culture-of-distraction Hi, my name is Sonia and I’m addicted to my smartphone. Except it’s not…

Today, my twitter account @CTAspley was unfollowed. Publicly. The person who unfollowed me sent a tweet that mentioned my name, and said as I’d unfollowed them first, they would reciprocate. Boo hoo. The impact of this is that I became aware of the unfollowing, and anyone that they follow also saw that I’d unfollowed that…